Russia sentenced for lack of education in the case of Anna Politkovskaya

Participants in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya have already been sentenced to long prison terms. But brains are unknown to this day. The reason: the Russian authorities have not sufficiently investigated, as found by the European Court of Human Rights (complaint number 15086/07). Russia must now pay compensation of 20,000 euros to her relatives.

The Politkovskaya family complained to Strasbourg. Russia and the complainants can both challenge the verdict within three months. Moscow has kept this option open for the moment. According to the Ministry of Justice, Politkovskaya, award-winning journalist of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, has won many enemies with reports of the worst human rights crimes in the former Chechnya war zone [19659004]. She was shot in front of her apartment in October 2006. After lengthy investigations, several men from Chechnya were sentenced in 2014. One of the convicts died in a prison hospital in 2017.

The family suspects a political motive

Russia should have checked against possible backers, whether the Russian internal intelligence service FSB or the Chechen authorities could have been involved in the murder , argued the Strasbourg judges. This suspicion is carried by the relatives of Politkovskaya. They suspect a political motive behind the act.

Instead, Russia targeted only one Russian businessman who lived in London before his death. The authorities did not explain how the authorities reached this conclusion.

There have always been murders of political origin in Russia. Completely enlightened, the acts were rarely. The human rights activist Natalia Estemirova was shot dead in the North Caucasus in 2009. Although the Kremlin has promised to investigate, the crime is still unclear.

The badbadination of the former Deputy Prime Minister and opposition politician, Boris Nemtsov, is one of the most prominent cases. He was shot dead in February 2015 in view of the Kremlin. Five Chechens have been sentenced to heavy prison terms in 2017. Nemtsov's family complains that donors are still unknown.